We are born for synergy, just like the feet, just like the hands, just like the eyes, just like the rows of upper and lower teeth. Working against each other is unnatural, and being annoyed and turning one's back is counterproductive.

The intelligence of the universe is social.

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.